In an age of photo manipulation, misinformation, AI and blatant bull, it's not unusual to think, "Yeah right!" at least a couple of times a week. Some people love to tell tall tales just for clout. They fib with their chests out, and lie unprovoked.
It's becoming more and more difficult to separate fact from fiction. But sometimes, the strangest tales actually do turn out to be true. Someone asked, "What is something that happened to you that is 100% real, but nobody believes you when you tell the story?" and you could be forgiven for thinking that we're living through the revenge of Pinocchio.
There's the nurse who swears a man came back to life, the person who claims to have been hit by the same drunk driver twice (two years apart), and others who have been called liars for telling what they know to be the truth. Bored Panda has put together a list of some of the most unbelievable encounters. And while we don't have receipts, we've decided to give these netizens the benefit of the doubt. Upvote the ones you think are true.
#41
Driving down the road, light was red so I started to stop. It turned green. My grandma screamed STOP THE CAR! DO NOT GO ON GREEN! So I stopped. A huge ford250 came blasting through the intersection. My grandma had passed years before.
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7points
#42
My grandpa swore I saved him. We flew in to tell him goodbye, I was only four. My family says I climbed up beside him in the hospital bed and I rubbed his arms and then I told him it would be ok now he would feel better (he later said my touch burned like fire) within the next few hours he was walking outside of the hospital smoking a cigarette and went home. He lived another ten years.
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6points
#43
I see people in my dreams that I haven’t spoken too in a long time and they will contact me that day.
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6points
#44
After miscarrying a set of twins and then my second pregnancy, by my third I started bleeding the same day I found out. Went to the ER and they told me basically go home and let the miscarriage happen, to early to attempt to save it. My grandma was visiting from PR at the time and I remember she prayed so much. She told me the next day she was reading this book of miracle stories and the one she read that night was about a woman who was told she was miscarrying but the baby survived. I go back next week to make sure I had “passed” the miscarriage and wouldn’t need a d&c. Boom, heartbeat. The whole pregnancy my husband and I kept seeing 11:11 and we’d always make a wish that the baby would make it to term and be born healthy. On 11/10 at 33 weeks I go into labor. My husband jokes “imagine he’s born on 11/11?” Sure enough, he was born on 11/11 at 11pm. And the first picture taken of us, the clock reads 11:11 in the background.
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5points
#45

My son was severely injured in a motorcycle accident, his first nurse introduced herself as Karen, the second introduced herself by her last name. His final ICU nurse i guessed her middle name. She look super confused as to how could i know that. The names was my deceased Mothers First, last and middle name! I knew right then my baby was gonna survive.
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4points
#46
Happened pretty recently but people believe it, my wife and I had been trying to have a baby for 5 years and finally can say we are expecting.
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4points
#47
Last week i was stuck in town with my kids completely out of gas and only $4 on my card. i live 30 minutes away in a rural area so i knew the $4 wasn’t going to get me home. i tapped my card at the pump to put the $4 and as the gas was pumping, it kept going it went all the way until my tank was full. $40 was the ending total. i was freaking out because i had no way to pay that and when i went inside she said i didn’t owe anything on her end and my card never went negative.
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4points
#48
In 2014 my daughter Holly passed tragically and unexpectedly. I cried hysterically for weeks. I went to bed one night sobbing myself to sleep telling God how alone I was in the world. Later in the middle of the night I woke up hearing foreign words. I sat up and wrote down how they sounded. I didn't remember until late afternoon the next day. I plugged the words into Google and it came back as "You are not alone" in Hebrew. Ive been reading The Bible and a believer since.
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3points
#49
During covid my now fiancé and I were BROKE! We had gotten all our stimulus checks, unemployment money and couldn’t find work. We were about to lose everything and had no idea how we were going to manage. We had decided earlier that day to just let everything go and live out of a car or try to live out of a storage unit since it would be risky but cheap. I walked out of the house and something told me to check the mail. Walked over to the mailbox and opened it and there was a letter from the US Treasury. For a little over $3,000. Just what we needed catch up on everything. To this day I still reminisce on those times.
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3points
#50
Very good friend called my phone 3 days after he passed. Called twice, I answered the second call. spoke for about a minute. He just kept repeating himself. sounded like he was at a busy location. So strange.
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3points
#51
I had a real bad back pain for weeks. Leaving the gym a guy approached me and said I noticed while you were working out you looked slightly in pain. I told him about the back pain. He said let me pray for you. He put his hand on my shoulder and prayed. I felt something leave me and the pain went away. I never saw that guy at the gym ever again.
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3points
#52
When I was little my arms used to pop out of socket ALL OF THE TIME so much to the point of my mom had to learn to put it back in place herself, one day I was at McDonalds with my mom and family and a random man came up to us and asked to pray for me because he could feel something was wrong, he grabbed both of my arms and was silent. From that day on my arms have never come out of socket again. I truly believe he was a healer or an angel sent to help me. Amazing.
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3points
#53
Sometimes when I ask someone a question I can hear the answer in my head. So when they answer I feel like they're repeating themselves, and that's when I realize that I actually heard the answer in my head.
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3points
#54
I heard a loud voice in my ear yell WAKE UP, then I opened my eyes my baby was falling off the bed, I had a split second to grab him. No one else was home.
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3points
#55
My dad’s cousin passed away, we had a whole family meal before the funeral at a restaurant. His wife got up and yelled and started crying. She handed her phone over to someone and they listened to it. She had received a random voicemail from him that said “Hey, it’s Dave. I made it! I love you!” They were all saying it was him saying he made it to Heaven. It was a wild experience.
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2points
#56
I never told anyone because they would never believe me but I passed Amy Willard's abandoned car that night. I snuck out of my house just to drive around, I did this A LOT!! I've lived with this for 30yrs.
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1point
#57
My daughter was 3 when we moved to a brand new town (it was 2 hours away from our old house and she had never been there.) We visited an antique shop and she was certain her friend was in there. She saw him clearly. For years she would wave to that building whenever we would be at the stoplight in front. A few months ago our historic page posted a picture of the house next to the antique shop from 1903. My daughter is standing on the porch in the picture, clear as day.
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1point
#58
I was getting ready for work one morning standing in the mirror. I bent down to go in cabinet. When I came back up my reflection was still bent down. Was about half a second. Then I watched as it raised back up and went back to matching my movements.
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1point
#59
I had thyroid cancer and went to get my eyebrows done at a place I’ve never gone to before, just happened to be there, never seen it before either in a shopping mall I frequented all the time, I walked in and was greeted by one lady who was working the whole place. I told her I wanted my eyebrows done, she said sure come on back. I went back and laid down on the bed and she put her hands on my neck almost immediately and started praying on me. She asked god to not let it spread. I NEVER TOLD THIS WOMAN I HAD CANCER. 2 weeks later I had my surgery to remove it and I had NO spread even though they said it was possibly spreading. I went back in a month after my surgery to get my eyebrows done again and tell her thank you. The place WASNT there. I asked the people next to it where they could have relocated to and they looked at me crazy and said ‘this store has been vacant for 4 months’.
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0points
#60
I [passed away] for seconds after a plastic surgery, I saw my life passed in pictures since I was born till the last day and at the end I saw Jesus smiling then I woke up… this happened in 2017.
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